Joseph Schafer
Software Engineer at Upstart
Lehi, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Schafer is a software engineer and engineering leader with eight years of experience building scalable backend and full-stack systems, currently working at Upstart after serving as VP of Engineering at Alpine Gold Exchange. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP, Python, Vue.js, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes with a focus on reactive systems, performance tuning and robust architecture. At Alpine he led cross-functional teams and delivered end-to-end product features while driving PostgreSQL optimizations that yielded up to 100x performance improvements. Comfortable in DevOps and cloud integrations (AWS) as well as site reliability work, he bridges product needs and engineering execution. A BYU computer engineering alum, he pairs practical hardware experience from university labs with production software discipline. Colleagues would note his knack for translating business requirements into maintainable systems that scale.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-IdahoBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
English
Github Skills (13)
cqrs7
nest7
dependency-injection7
cloudflare-workers6
nestjs6
authentication3
nextjs3
auth2
tplink2
cypress2
event-sourcing2
microservices2
web-framework1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jes3rk/dtty
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Web framework for Cloudflare Workers
Contributions:42 reviews, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 6 months
cloudflare-workersweb-frameworkdependency-injectionitty-router
chance-get-yours/moirae
May 2022 - Dec 2022
A NestJS compatible CQRS/ES framework
Contributions:9 releases, 36 reviews, 122 commits in 7 months
cqrsnestnestjs
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